Heir Apparent: Bio
image of Lyn Hejinian

Lyn Hejinian’s most recent poetry book is The Book of a Thousand Eyes. She is the co-editor (with Barrett Watten) of A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982 – 1998 (Wesleyan, 2013), published in tandem with the Poetics Journal Archive, an ebook edition of Poetics Journal in its entirety. In 2009, Hejinian founded the Solidarity Alliance at UC Berkeley, a coalition of unions, workers, staff, students, and faculty fighting against the privatization of public education.